10/27/2026
This is a long, thorough, and important essay. If you have any concern with the Northmark Valara Data Center on Pine Street, you need to review and know this essay. Sam does a superb and very fair job of examining the different agreements proposed on Monday and reached on Thursday. This is important as a first reading and what was approved. And I am happy to see the County Commission seek to address some of the issues I brought up during public comment at the County Commission meeting on the 19th. And most important is what is missing. We are missing key comments about a public fund, promised by Northmark, that seems to have disappeared. This leads to conjecture about what the fund was truly all about. I hope as the county commision continues its efforts, it is effective at winning back the 1Milllion dollars Northmark promised. This is important because the agreed tax contribution of $15M will decrease in value over time. This is the least Northmark can do to support the community. They want to be good neighbors -- this would be a great place to start.
https://www.carolinaecology.com/p/what-the-drafts-let-us-see?fbclid=IwY2xjawVMQJhleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBwZG9mAXNydGMGYXBwX2lkEDIyMjAzOTE3ODgyMDA4OTIAAR5ThW2vczAiQEDn6lVNzvpMeD0jPN8uQtJEW109Ua_KFq1sJS8FO6j8P9TLSw_aem_u3vJ8dkxBMPbS_Tar-MD3Q
Four days, two closed sessions, and the terms Spartanburg County is writing down for the Valara NorthMark data center.
